[Python-ideas] '' in 'abc' == True

[Masklinn]

On 2012-07-18, at 20:31 , Devin Jeanpierre wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Masklinn <masklinn at masklinn.net> wrote:
>>> It's both (with the caveat that, in Python, a character is just a
>>> string of length 1).
>> 
>> That's playing with words, especially comparing strings with Python 3
>> binaries which *do* actually have a separate "character" type
>> (reified to an integer).
> 
> No it isn't. Strings are adherents to the sequence protocol. The
> Python datatype reference echoes what I said, nearly exactly.

This has no relevance to my messages, I have not claimed anywhere that
strings weren't sequences.

>> So Python strings don't have reified characters, a string's item and a
>> slice of size 1 are essentially identical which is pretty much unique
>> to them (as far as my knowledge of Python's sequences go).
> 
> Nothing about that feature makes them not-sequences; instead, it makes
> them a rather special kind of sequence.

I'm not sure why you're saying that. Again, I have never once claimed they
were not sequences (quite the opposite in fact). Why the strawmanning?